Cash-carrier



(No Model.)

W. 1:1. WILLIAMS. CASH CARRIER.

110.452,469. Patented May 19,1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM HUGH l/VILLIAMS, OF -MANCI-IESTER, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE LAMSON CONSOLIDATED STORE SERVICE COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CASH-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part f Letters Patent NO. 452,469, dated May 19, 1891. Application iiled November l, 1886. Serial No. 217,703. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: As shown, the travelers or carriers B cono Be it known that I, VILLIAM HUGH WIL- sist each of a cast-metal cylinder b, hollow, LIM/Is, a subject of the Queen of Great Britand receiving a detachable drawer or box c, ain, and a resident of Manchester, Lancaster which may be withdrawn and inserted in the 5 county, England, have invented certain new cylinder and which is retained by any suitand useful Improvements in Cash-Carriers, of able catch that may be vused for this purpose, a 5 5 which the following is a specification. spring-catch s being shown in the drawings, The object of my invention is to transfer and along the top of the cylinder is a rib d, with rapidity and without the mistakes which in which is a longitudinal opening ar, for the Io are apt to ensue from the employment of cash passage of the-wire track.

boys and cash girls the money which is re- Each track extends from a point adjacent 6o ceived from customers by the salesmen to the to the cashiers desk I to one of the stations, cashier and to return the change from the so that each salesman can communicate with cashier to the salesmen. the cashier, which is done by inserting the The objections to the employment of chilmoney or small parcel or memorandum in the dren in stores for conveying money and drawer c, placing the latter in the receptacle, change between the salesmen and cashier are and then giving the traveler a push with the so well known that it is not necessary for me hand, which sends it easily to the otherA end to particularize them. It is sufficient to state of the line. A

2o that these objections have led to the employ- It will be evident to any skilled mechanic ment of various devices for doing the'work that the-travelers or carriers may be made in 7o mechanically. Such devices have proved to many different forms, so as to slide readily on be both cumbrous and expensive, and many the wire tracks, it only being essential that of them are inefficient, which has led me to there be a perforated portion of the carrier 2 5 devise the improvement which I will now defor the passage of the wire, which supports scribe in connection with the accompanying the carrier and upon which it will slide easily, drawings, in whichwithoutthe use of anyfriction rollers or wheels,

Figure lis a plan view of part of a store the employment of which is objectionable illustrating myimprovement. Fig.2isasecbecause of the expense, the liability to get 3o tional elevation of the parts shown in Fig. l. out of order, and mainly because of the re- Fig. 3 is a perspective view illustrating the duction of speed, for a Wheelless carrier may 8o form of the traveler or carrier in which the be thrown along the wire almost as rapidly money is inserted and transferred. Fig. 4 is a as if it were thrown through the air by hand.

longitudinal section of a carrier. Fig. 5 is a I do not herein claim, broadly, wheelless 3 5 transverse section. carriers traveling on wires for conveying The apparatus consists, essentially, of two cash in stores, as I am aware that such carparts-that is, the track or tracks A and the riers are old in the art. travelers or carriers B. Blocks of rubber t or other equivalent Each track A consists of a polished Wire lneans may be used for limiting the jar re- 4o stretched tightly between supports connected sulting from the sudden stoppage of the travto the walls D D of the store or between elers. f 9o other supports at such a height that it can be Having thus described my invention, what reached or very nearly reached by the cashier I particularly claim, and wish to patent, isand salesmen, and each traveler or carrier l. In a store-service apparatus, the combi- 45 consists of a receptacle of any suitable shape nation of a track or .wire stretched taut beprovided with alongitudinal opening, through tween two distant points, a carrier having an which the wire track A extends, and hanging opening at one end to receive a drawenwhich down below the track,so that it can be reached is held in place by a spring, said carrier havby the hands ofthe salesmen and cashier. ing a rib provided with a longitudinal opening adapted to reeeive the wire by which the I with L longitudinal opening adapted to recarrier is supported, substantially :1s deeeive the Wire bywhieh the carrier is supseribed. ported, substantially as described.

2. In :t store-service apparatus, the con1bi- In testimony whereof I have signed my 5 nation of a track or Wire stretched taut benaine to this specification in the presence of 15 tween two distant points, n hollow cylindrical two subscribing Witnesses.

carrier having an opening :it one end to 1e 't \VILLIAM IIUGII lWILLIAMSl Ceive a drawer which is held in the carrier Witnesses: by a spring, said carrier having upon its ex- FELIX MCILVENNA,

1o terior surface e longitudinal rib provided EDWARD LEICESTER. 

